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ALLAN HOLDSWORTH(guitar; - born in 1946 in Bradford, England, is widely considered to be one of the finest instrumentalists in jazz-rock- fusion, since the 70s. Before launching his brilliant solo career, Holdsworth was member of seminal progressive rock and jazz fusion bands in the 70s, such as Tempest, Soft Machine, Tony Williams Lifetime, Gong, Bruford, UK and in his career has also played with rock and jazz luminaries Jack Bruce, Jeac Luc Ponty, Billy Cobham, Level 42 and Gordon Beck, among others. When Holdsworth launched his solo career, which over the years has seen the release of nearly 20 albums, he quickly established himself as an extraordinary guitarist joined by an arsenal of acclaimed musicians, such as Paul Williams (former bandmate of Holdsworth's in Tempest), Gary Husband, Jeff Berlin, Chad Wackerman, Jimmy Johnson, Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Hunt, Alan Pasqua, Tony Williams, among others. In the mid 80s, Holdsworth was one of the first musicians to use the Synthaxe (a guitar-synthesizer that contained a breath controller that proved to be a cross between a synthesizer, a guitar, and a saxophone) and was awarded Best Guitar-Synthesizer player from 1989 through 1994 in the readers' poll of Guitar Player magazine.  During the mid 80s, Holdsworth created a signature guitar model with Ibanez, and in the 90s, he also created another signature guitar model with the Carvin company. In the mid 90s, Holdsworth briefly shifted away from his fusion origins and recorded an album with longtime musical  partner Gordon Beck that dipped into jazz standards. While Allan Holdsworth has focuses mainly on his own band - touring extensively worldwide -, still during this time, in the mid 90s, he got together with ex-members of Gong, to take part on the band Gongzilla, named after Gong, and recorded the album "Suffer" (1995), and in 2002 he joined Soft Works, a sort of Soft Machine alumni super group, featuring England's jazz legends Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper and John Marshall. Recently he also joined a collective jazz-rock-fusion supergroup featuring Alan Pasqua, Jimmy Haslip and Chad Wackerman and actively performs worldwide with his own trio.

TERRYBOZZIO(drums, percussion; - born in 1950, Bay area, California) is classically trained and phenomenally skilled drummer. He made his name recording and touring with Frank Zappa (and appearing in the concert movie Baby Snakes), and then the band UK. After his audition for Zappa, all the drummers behind him in the line left, and he was accepted. He was particularly famous for performing Zappa's "The Black Page", a piece of music designed to be a "musician's nightmare" a page so filled with notes as to be almost black. Bozzio went on to form Missing Persons with his then-wife and lead vocalist Dale Bozzio, ex-Zappa guitarist Warren Cuccurillo, ex-Zappa bassist Patrick O'Hearn  and keyboard player Chuck Wild. After disbanding Missing Persons in 1986, Terry joined up with ex-Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor for his solo band. Recently, he has worked with the band Korn on their 8th studio album after the departure of their drummer David Silveria. Bozzio’s drumming innovation consists in creating the melodic ostinato for the drum set when he noticed how a pianist would solo or play counter  rhythms against the ostinato or pedal point. He then applied this concept to the drum set. Bozzio is also noted for creating orchestral compositions on the drum set by playing polyrhythmics and metric modulations while utilizing his large custom kit (sometimes nicknamed "SS Bozzio"), in which the tom toms are tuned to specific notes to create the atmosphere that is Bozzio’s signature sound.

TONYLEVIN(upright bass, bass guitar, stick; - born in 1946, Boston, Massachusetts) is one of the world’s most famous and the most accomplished bass guitar and Chapman stick players. Levin is best-known for his work with progressive rock pioneers King Crimson and Peter Gabriel. Has also been a member of Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, Liquid Tension Experiment and leads his own bands, Tony Levin Band and Stickman. Aprolific session musician since the 1970s, Levin has played on hundreds of albums, including those of John Lennon, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd, Yes, Seal, Sarah McLachlan, The Roches, Todd Rundgren, Cher, and jazz legend Buddy Rich. Additionally, he has toured with artists including Paul Simon (with whom Tony appeared in Simon's 1980 film "One Trick Pony"), Gary Burton, James Taylor, Herbie Mann, Goro Noguchi, Judy Collins, Joe Yamanaka, Carly Simon, Peter Frampton, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Tim Finn, Richie Sambora, and Claudio Baglioni. Levin helped to popularize the Chapman Stick and the NS upright bass. He has also created "funk fingers", a device for mimicking the sound of hitting the strings with drumsticks (which sounds similar to slap style bass).

PAT MASTELOTTO(drums, percussion, electronics; - born in 1955, Chico, California) is a rock drummer who has worked with Mr. Mister, King Crimson and XTC, amongst others. For King Crimson he initially formed part of the "double trio", joining Bill Bruford on drums. As a session drummer he started playing among others with Martin Briley, Al Jarreau, Pointer Sisters, Patti LaBelle, Kenny Loggins, Martika, Jack Wagner, Danny Wilde, and others. Pat was also a founding member of Mr. Mister a band in the mid 1980's held number one singles, album and video. Followed by more session work for XTC, The Sugarcubes, Hall & Oates, Cock Robin, The Rembrandts, Jude Cole, Eddie Money, Tina Arena, Mark Jordon, Matthew Sweet, Julia Fordham, Robyn Hitchcock, David Sylvian. Since 1994 Mastelotto has been a member of King Crimson, appearing on over twenty band’s albums and several music videos. Other significant projects include drum duo with Terry Bozzio and TU with Trey Gunn, guesting on California Guitar Trio and Flower Kings, and recently Stickman with Tony Levin.

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